March 27, 2008

It's all about balance

If I were to receive the world's most accurate fortune cookie right now, it would say "Exciting changes are afoot. Also, you have too much yarn."

I'm not going into details until it's all finalised, but suffice it to say I am re-packing my stash. Somehow, in the five months I have been here, my stash has grown by at least a third. I really have no idea how this happened, because there's not a LYS in sight (remember when I got so excited to visit a Spotlight? Yeah...). However, I think this may have had something to do with it.

Recent acquisitions include:

L-R clockwise: Knitpicks natural sock yarn for dyeing adventures (thanks Michelle!), beautiful 'Stormy Weather' hand-dyed roving from Lapoli, Cleckheatons Angora Silk (from eBay), and 'Felicia' hand-dyed roving from Yummy Yarn (which I have not been wearing as a scarf. I would not do that. *ahem*).

I worked out the other day the balance of my possessions is sadly (?) skewed in favour of yarn. Bear in mind that I only brought absolutely essential items with me (which reminds me, why IS a dead camera and a remote control to God-knows-what essential?)... and this is what it works out to, by volume:

(My brother just pointed out this chart is wrong, because I forgot to include my CDs, DVDs and laptop... whoops. I think that'd be about 5% in terms of volume, cos I got rid of most of them when I moved from Perth).